An effective method to estimate multidimensional Gaussian states

Details An effective method to estimate multidimensional Gaussian states An effective method to estimate multidimensional Gaussian states

2009-02-04

arxiv.org/abs/0902.0823v1

Physical Review A 79, 032111 (2009)

Physics

Quantum Physics

8 pages, 5 fis, accepted for publication on PRA

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.79.032111

A simple and efficient method for characterization of multidimensional Gaussian states is suggested and experimentally demonstrated. Our scheme shows analogies with tomography of finite dimensional quantum states, with the covariance matrix playing the role of the density matrix and homodyne detection providing Stern-Gerlach-like projections. The major difference stems from a different character of relevant noises: while the statistics of Stern-Gerlach-like measurements is governed by binomial statistics, the detection of quadrature variances correspond to chi-square statistics. For Gaussian and near Gaussian states the suggested method provides, compared to standard tomography techniques, more stable and reliable reconstructions. In addition, by putting together reconstruction methods for Gaussian and arbitrary states, we obtain a tool to detect the non-Gaussian character of optical signals.

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